UNP Parliamentary Group had decided to appoint John Amaratunga as the Chief opposition whip a short while ago. The decision to appoint Mr. Amaratunga was made at the group meeting held in party head quarters ‘Sirikotha’ this evening.

The military is in discussion with Parliament regarding the attendance of General Sarath Fonseka at the first session of the new parliament which is scheduled to be held tomorrow, Military Spokesperson Prasad Samarasinghe told Daily Mirror on

The Postal Department will resume collecting letters and packages to be sent via air mail after a three day disruption, after the recommencement of air travel to Europe from the Bandaranayke International Airport.

Senior SLFPer D.M Jayaratne was sworn in as the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka a short while ago before President Mahinda Rajapakse. He is the 15th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka and a veteran politician National List member of Parliament.

SriLankan Airline’s re-commenced flights to London, Paris, and Milan following the lifting of restrictions by Eurocontrol today, the Airline said in a statement. Sri Lankan operated flights to Paris and Milan early this morning.

The Colombo Fort Magistrate today ordered the OIC of the Fort Police Station to appear before Court to show cause as to why the police had taken photographs of the Attorney-at-law who appeared on behalf of the Democratic National Alliance

Goa police are on the look out for Sri Lankan Tamils possibly working on fishing trawlers and in the mushrooming hotel industry in coastal Goa after the union home ministry warned of infiltration by surviving cadres of the decimated LTTE

UPFA National list MP Dissanayake Mudiyanselage Jayaratne will be sworn in as the 15th Prime Minister of the country in front of the President this evening, sources told Daily Mirror online.

A case was filed against Dhanuna Thilakaranthna’s grandmother by the Criminal Investigations Department today at the Colombo Fort Magistrate Court. She was charged for providing accommodation for an absconding suspect.

A Daily Mirror online team in Kandy to cover the General Elections repoll were followed and video taped by a provincial journalist on the instructions of the Nawalapitiya police, according to him, and even threatened the media team from Colom

UPFA announced its 17  National list nominations today which include, Ratnasiri Wickremanayaka, D.M. Jayarathne, Dulles Alahapperuma, G.L. Peiris, Rajiva Wijesinghe, Malini Fonseka and Kamala Ranathunga

UNP finalized its National list members after much conferring among the minority parties. The members, who were finally nominated, include party General Secretary Tissa Attanayake and Joseph Michael Perera

The Chief Security Officer (CSO) of the Cinnamon Lakeside hotel who was remanded for allegedly deleting the data from the Cinnamon Lakeside security camera sets of January 26 and 27 was given bail by the Colombo Fort Magistrate today.

The Democratic National Alliance (DNA) had nominated Tiran Alles and Anura Kumara Dissanayake as its National list member’s to Parliament.

UPFA candidate Mahindananda Aluthgamage has received the highest preferential votes in the Kandy District with 146,765 votes followed by Keheliya Rambukwella who received 133,060 votes and S.B. Dissanayaka with 108,169 votes.

The Department of Elections announced that the UPFA, which won the 2010 General Elections, will have 144 seats in the new Parliament while the UNP will have 60 seats, ITAK 14 and the Democratic National Alliance (DNA) 07 seats.

The United Peoples Freedom Alliance (UPFA) has won the General Elections in the Kandy District by polling in 339,819 votes and securing 8 seats while the UNP has obtained 192,798 votes and secured 4 seats. The DNA obtained 23,728 votes.

The Democratic People's Front (DPF) has warned that it will be forced to counter react if the United National Party (UNP) reneges on its deal with the party concerning national list slots in parliament

The UPFA has secured the most number of votes in the re-poll held in Nawalapitiya today by obtaining 38,153 votes while the UNP has got 11,648 votes and the DNA has obtained 1,128 votes

The United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA)  has so far secured 119 seats in parliament followed by the United National Party (UNP) with 47 seats. The Illangai Thamail Arausu Katchi (ITAK) has 13 seats and the Democratic Nationa

ITAK Leader R. Sampanthan has received the highest preferential votes in the Trincomalee District with 24, 488 votes followed by UNP’s M.S. Thaufee who received 23,588 votes.

Sri Lanka’s first post-war parliament must get rid of draconian emergency laws that have allowed for decades of widespread human rights abuses, international human rights defenders, Amnesty International said. 

The UPFA, following the re-poll today has won the General Elections in Trincomalee by polling in 59,784 votes and winning 2 seats while the UNP came in second with 39,691 votes with one seat followed by ITAK with 33,268 votes and 1 seat.

The voter turn out at the Nawalapitiya and Kumburupitiya electorates has ended satisfactorily with over 50% casting their votes in Nawalapitiya and 46% casting their votes in Kumburupitiya, election monitors said.

The Buddhist convert to Islam, Sara, alias Malani Perera who had written two books about her conversion from Buddhism to Islam and was in detention on the orders of the Defence Secretary from March 19  was released today on bail by the

The Foreign Ministry has instructed all Sri Lankan Missions in Europe to take necessary action to render suitable consular assistance to Sri Lankan nationals who are currently stranded in European capitals due to the volcanic eruptions in Iceland.

The journalism and business studies faculty at the Trincomalee University has been closed with immediate effect following an incident at the faculty where students had attempted to attack a lecturer and cut power at the rector’s office.

The second Court Martial that resumed its sittings today to hear charges against General Sarath Fonseka is to receive written submissions from both defence counsel and prosecution by April 30 before its next sitting on May 4.

The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) informed the Colombo Magistrate today that Sicille Kotelawela, wife of Ceylinco Chairman Lalith Kotelawala is believed to be in Singapore.

The voter turn out at the General Elections re-poll in the Nawalapitiya and Kumburupitiya electorates has been satisfactory so far with a 40% voter turn out according to election monitors.